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One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Dallas Morning News, Buzzfeed, BookPage, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews

NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER

Tommy Orange’s “groundbreaking, extraordinary” (The New York Times) There There is the “brilliant, propulsive” (People Magazine) story of twelve unforgettable characters, Urban Indians living in Oakland, California, who converge and collide on one fateful day. It’s “the year’s most galvanizing debut novel” (Entertainment Weekly).

As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow—some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent—momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle’s memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will to perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.

There There is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen. It’s “masterful . . . white-hot . . . devastating” (The Washington Post) at the same time as it is fierce, funny, suspenseful, thoroughly modern, and impossible to put down. Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with urgency and force. Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. This is the book that everyone is talking about right now, and it’s destined to be a classic.

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Amazing book

5

By SabraCanuck

Orange writes beautifully. His story made me cry. And there’s so much suspense.

There There

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By Arkady Hanko

This book contains some great sentences, but no real story. There are a lot of ways to go nowhere in the big city if you are poor and from a family blighted by addiction, abuse, divorce or lack of education, and btw the characters are all native Americans.

Superior

5

By SDWill

A superior work of art.

Hmmm

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By Geo22253

Hoped I would like this book but it is just one hard luck story after another. Please tell me there are some happy Native Americans somewhere. Times are tough all over but these characters have it way worse than the rest of us. Butch it up.

Worst book ever

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By Gamerater499

No story here at all. Just a lot of sad people bemoaning their lot in life. If you want to help native Americans give to one of their charities. Don’t waste your money on this book.

Horrible.

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By anstermurr

Just plan bad. Maybe I didn’t get it but really really bad.

There There

5

By Mary Lee D

I read it so quickly that I now will read again slowly to absorb the richness of Orange’s writing...best I’ve read in a long time.

An important contribution....

5

By TeamSheltie

to American/Native American literature. Tommy Orange can flat out write!